Bill Text: FL S0734 | 2017 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Construction Liens
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-03-15 - Withdrawn from further consideration [S0734 Detail]
Download: Florida-2017-S0734-Introduced.html
Florida Senate - 2017 SB 734 By Senator Powell 30-00891-17 2017734__ 1 A bill to be entitled 2 An act relating to construction liens; amending s. 3 713.132, F.S.; revising requirements relating to the 4 recording of a notice of termination of an improvement 5 to real property; providing an effective date. 6 7 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 8 9 Section 1. Subsection (3) of section 713.132, Florida 10 Statutes, is amended to read: 11 713.132 Notice of termination.— 12 (3) An owner maynotrecord a notice of termination at any 13 time whether or notexcept after completion ofconstruction, or14after constructionceases before completion. However, if the 15 notice is recorded before completion of construction, the notice 16 may be recorded only after the owner has served notice pursuant 17 to paragraph (1)(f) on the contractor and all lienors and the 18 contractor and all lienors giving notice have been paid in full 19 or pro rata in accordance with s. 713.06(4) for all labor, 20 services, and materials provided through the effective date of 21 the notice of termination as provided in subsection (4). If an 22 owner or a contractor, by fraud or collusion, knowingly makes 23 any fraudulent statement or affidavit in a notice of termination 24 or any accompanying affidavit, the owner and the contractor, or 25 either of them, as the case may be, is liable to any lienor who 26 suffers damages as a result of the filing of the fraudulent 27 notice of termination; and any such lienor has a causerightof 28 action for damagesoccasioned thereby. 29 Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2017.